1. 1aB1/ˌʌnɪmˈpɔːrtənt/ · /ˌʌnɪmˈpɔːtənt/不重要的

    Not important. Something unimportant has little or no effect on what happens, so people do not need to worry about it or spend much time on it.

    示範例句 · Example

    Don't worry about the spelling — that part is unimportant.

    逐字別擔心拼字——那個部分是不重要的。

    unimportant 可以想成 important 前面裝了一個開關 un-,把「重要」整個關掉,剩下「不重要」。它是這一家人裡最中性、最不帶情緒的說法,只是講「這件事影響不大」,沒有嫌棄的意思;旁邊幾個字各有味道:minor 是「小、影響有限」,trivial 是「瑣碎到不值得花時間」,insignificant 是「跟別的一比就小得看不見」。日常說話多半直接講 not important,unimportant 比較常出現在寫作或整理重點的句子裡,像 unimportant details。

    常見搭配

    • unimportant details

      不重要的細節

      small parts of something that do not change the main point

      Hana's summary left out the unimportant details.

    • relatively unimportant

      相對來說不重要

      not important when you compare it with something else

      Next to a safe bridge, the colour of the paint is relatively unimportant.

    • seem unimportant

      看起來不重要

      to look as if it does not matter

      Her question seemed unimportant, but it helped the whole class.

    • treat something as unimportant

      把某件事當成不重要的

      to act as if something does not matter

      Employees' opinions were often treated as unimportant.

    • in no way unimportant

      絕非不重要

      used to say that something really is important

      These small savings are in no way unimportant.

core核心畫面

Picture a pile of things you have to deal with, and you are sorting them. The unimportant ones go to the bottom: if you never get to them, nothing much changes. That is the whole word — not small, not bad, just carrying little weight in what finally happens.

可以想成你面前有一堆待辦的事情,正在排順序。unimportant 的那些就被放到最下面:就算一直沒處理,結果也不會差多少。這個字說的就是這件事——不是體積小、也不是不好,而是它在最後的結果裡幾乎不佔份量,所以不必為它花心思。

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

unimportantadj/ˌʌnɪmˈpɔːtənt/

  • 1

    petty; not important or noteworthy

    • It’s to the credit of this remarkable writer that those absences seem unimportant beside what is so rousingly present.

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